Reunion Between Elderly Parents and Their Distant Children

AYOUB, M. R. (1984) “The family reunion.”Ethnology, 5: 415-433.

BOSSARD, J.H.S. and E. S. BOLL (1950) Ritual in Family Living. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press.

BOSZORMENYI-NAGY, I. and G. M. SPARK (1973) Invisible Loyalties: Reciprocity in Intergenerational Family Therapy. Hagertown, MD: Harper & Row.

BOWEN, M. (1976) Family Therapy in Clinical Practice. New York: Jason Aronson.

BOWLBY, J. (1969) Attachment and Loss, 1: Attachment. New York: Basic Books.

COHLER. B. J. and S. GEYER (1982) “Psychological autonomy and interdependence within the family,” in F. Walsh (ed.) Normal Family Processes. New York: Guilford.

DAVIS, F. (1979) Yearning for Yesterday: A Sociology of Nostalgia. New York: Free Press.

ELIOT, T. S. (1967) “The family reunion,” pp. 55-122 in The Complete Plays of T. S. Eliot. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World.

FARBER, L. (1973) “Family reunion.”Rev. of Existential Psychology and Psychiatry 12: 213-220.

FRAMO, J. (1976) “Family of origin as a therapeutic resource for adults in marital and family therapy: you can and should go home again.”Family Process 14: 193-210.

GOFFMAN, E. (1964) “On face work: an analysis of ritual elements in social interaction,” in W. Bennis et al. (eds.) Interpersonal Dynamics. Homewood, IL: Dorsey.

HAGESTAD, G. (1981) “Problems and promises in the social psychology of intergenerational relations,” in R. W. Fogel et al. (eds.) Stability and Change in the Family. New York: Academic Press.

KOHUT, H. (1971) The Analysis of the Self. New York: International Press.

LAFARGUE, J. P. (1984) “The family reunion: affirmation of the exchange system.” Presented at American Anthropological Association Meetings, Denver.

LAZARUS, R. S. and A. DeLONGIS (1983) “Psychological stress and coping in aging.”Amer. Psychologist 38: 245-254.

LEWIS, J. (1941) The Wife of Martin Guerre. Denver: Alan Swallow.

LINDAHL, M. W. (1986) “Lineage identity and generational continuity: family history and family reunions.” Presented at American Sociological Association Meetings.

LITWAK, E. (1960) “Geographic mobility and extended family cohesion.”Amer. Socio. Rev. 25: 385-394.

MARRIS, P. (1974) Loss and Change. New York: Pantheon.

MILLER, H. (1944) “Reunion in Brooklyn,” pp. 63-106 in Sunday After the War. New York: New Directions.

MOORE, S. F. and B. G. MYERHOFF (1977) “Secular ritual: forms and meanings,” in S. F. Moore and B. G. Myerhoff (eds.) Secular Ritual. Assen/Amsterdam, The Netherlands: VanGorcum.

MOSS, M. S. and S. Z. MOSS (1983-1984). “The impact of parental death on middle aged children.”Omega 14: 65-75.

MOSS, M. S. , S. Z. MOSS , and E. L. MOLES (1985) “The quality of relationships between elderly parents and their out of town children.”Gerontologist 25: 134-140.

MOSS, S. Z. and M. S. MOSS (1980) “The dialectics of reunion,” in E. J. Anthony and C. Chiland (eds.) The Child in His Family, Vol. 6. New York: John Wiley.

MOSSIKER, F. (1983) Madame de Sevigne: A Life and Letters. New York: Knopf.

NIETZSCHE, F. (1954) The Philosophy of Nietzsche. New York: Modern Library.

NOAM, G. (1986) The Elderly Mother-Adult Daughter Relationship: A Survey of Recent Literature. Jerusalem: Brookdale Institute of Gerontology and Human Development.

PINTER, H. (1965) The Homecoming. New York: Grove Press.

PLATT, L. and J. McCAULEY (1978) “Family Reunions,” in Family Therapy Practice. Olney, MD: Family Therapy Practice Network.

PROUST, M. (1981) Remembrance of Things Past. New York: Random House.

RUBIN, Z. (1982) “Fathers and sons... the search for reunion.”Psychology Today 16: 22-33.

SHAKESPEARE, W. (1949) “King Lear,” in O. J. Campbell (ed.) The Living Shakespeare. New York: Macmillan.

SIMMEL, G. (1961) “Faithfulness and gratitude,” in T. Parsons et al. (eds.) Theories of Society. New York: Free Press.

TROLL, L. E. [ed.] (1986) Family Issues in Current Gerontology. New York: Springer.

TROLL, L. E. and I. SMITH (1976) “Attachment through the life span: some questions about dyadic bonds among adults.”Human Development 19: 156-170.

TURNER, V. (1977) “Variations of the theme of liminality,” in S. F. Moore and B. G. Myerhoff (eds.) Secular Ritual. Assen/Amsterdam, The Netherlands: VanGorcum.

WALKER, A. and L. THOMPSON (1983) “Intimacy and intergenerational aid and contact among mothers and daughters.”J. of Marriage and the Family 45: 841-850.

WEISS, R. S. (1982) “Attachment in adult life,” in C. M. Parkes and J. Stevenson-Hinde (eds.) The Place of Attachment in Human Behavior. New York: Basic Books.

WOLIN, S. J. and L. A. BENNETT (1984) “Family rituals.”Family Process 23: 401-420.